THANK GOD THEY DIDN'T. I'm so tired of this topic - the dude is about 205 and wants to retire. If Chiodo's means that much to people they should have stepped up to the plate and offered to buy it themselves - but ooops, then that would entail work. Honest to God, put it on a trailer and move it down the street to a vacant lot (there are many there) and let new membership keep it up if that's what people want. The problem is that everyone is upset but no one wants to do anything but bitch.

/end Chiodo's rant

Wallace Miller, the coroner they quoted, was the county coroner at the time of the Flight 93 crash and received universal praise for his handling of such a difficult situation.

Honey, I loved that article! I think Pittsburgh is such a hard place to explain to someone who has never lived there and the article helped a lot.

My husband actually said to me this morning that we should buy tickets and go see the Steelers/Jets game this weekend! :eek:

For those non-burgers, you can't just buy Steeler tickets. You have to inherit them or something!

Ah yes I hear my friend Bryan gripe about that all the time!

Anyways this is completely off subject but I just had to share with only people that would understand why I'm so excited about this. Anyways the Clarks are playing in LA on Feb 9th and I'm going to see them! I'm sure there are bigger Clarks fans out there but there something about having a bit of the 'burgh on the west coast that almost makes the country seem not so big after all.

Glad you loved the article, KR!! I've only ever been to one Steelers game, the last time the Steelers played the Bears at Three Rivers Stadium. I listen to 3WS in the morning, and they were having a contest. When I called in, I told them that the day of the game was also my birthday (which it was), so I was thrilled to win the tickets!!

The last I heard, at the rate of attrition, if you get on the waiting list today for season tickets, you will probably get a chance at them in 32 years!


ADDED: I just heard on tv that the T. Rex at the Airport is holding a T. Rex sized Terrible Towel!!

Kinda off topic, but I was in the 'Burgh over the weekend and lost my Primanti virginity! It was pretty yummy, too!

Welcome to the club, Jess! ;) Good, good stuff :)

More interesting things about Pitt: I do a history program for the local third graders, and it's tomorrow. I was confirming (actually, debunking) a rumor I had heard on the net, when I found a whole section on Women at Pitt. Needless to say, the only sorority mentioned is a Pi Theta Nu (?) founded in 1914.

But! There are some awesome photos & floor plans of the mysterious 12th floor of the Cathedral here! We actually had Rho Chi and Rho Lambda/Order of the Omega meetings in the Braun Room, and I have millions of memories of the kitchen & the large Social Room from being in Quo Vadis. But I never knew that there was a Quilt Room or a Roof Deck there! I had heard that the 12th floor was supposed to be used for sophisticated entertaining and teaching the social graces, but...!

It's after midnight, and I'm aching to go to the Cathedral!!!

I love the Cathedral. As a high school girl, I hung out there for HOURS on end with friends. Also went to writing institute there for a while, which was tremendous. I love that place. Looking back now, a teenager hanging out at a college as much as I did probably wasn't the smartest idea, but man do I have great memories.

Hey I went to that concert. Greg is a jerk. The guy from Street Smarts was there. He is from Pittsburgh. I had to cold knock that sucka out because I think he was hitting on me.

Anyways, it was a pretty cool show. you know because it was live. I'm not even sure if people from Pittsburgh has even heard of them though. Considering everyone from the show was the lead singers neighbor, the drummers cousin, Gregs step brother. yes all 20 people in the audience. In fact I think they paid everyone 5 bucks to go to their show. Good times. My friend did the crip walk on one knee. And he still would have kicked Gregs ass.


Viva la Nooshieburger. I hope you read this in the morning! haha

ETA: Oh yeah, I kept lying and told everyone I was from Cherry Hill. I have no idea where Cherry Hill is. I remembered it from a map one day when I was looking at Pennsylvania. I just imagined a bunch of hot chicks naked running around waiting to feed me cherries on a hill. Hence the reason why I remembered it. Anyways people actually believed me. But then again I'm not sure if they did. You know considering they gave me the look like, " whoa, they have Asians in Cherry Hill?"

Good time. I love lying to people that I don't know. Next time I run into someone from New Jersey I will tell them I am from Trenton or something. if they don't believe I will try and mug them. Then they will probably believe me.

I believe Cherry Hill is a rather fancy suburb of Philly.

I love you...I really needed that this morning

A sister & I were at the beach one summer, and we ended up at a bar (go figure!). We were supposed to go to a muckity muck party, but weren't in the mood, so there we were, in this bar on a pier, dressed to the nines (and I'm talking the serious carat-type jewelry), and she turned to me and said, "So, where are you going next, back to the Hamptons or to Nice?" Without missing a beat, I said that I was going to check in on the new nanny & the kids, and that I'd meet up with her in Nice. She said that she was thinking of Venice instead, and we went on like that for an hour. Maybe it was how we were dressed, or the fact that we were drinking champagne kinda seriously (we sent one bottle back because it was "inferior"), but it was one of the best times I ever had with her!

It is that, but it's not in Pennsylvania. It's in Joisey.